Camus And Kierkegaard

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Camus and Kierkegaard both approach the absurdity of life by diffident means. While Camus deals with it through spite and revolt using an atheistic framework, Kierkegaard uses trust and faith through a religious framework. However, Camus classifies Kierkegaard's leap of faith as a philosophical suicide. Camus interprets this leap to be escapist in terms of the absurd. This is because Camus believes that turning to a blind faith does not solve the problems an individual has at hand with the absurdity one faces in life. Rather, the absurd individual is avoiding these problems but distracting themselves with following God’s will obligatorily.
Conversely, Kierkegaard could bring to light two fundamental problems with this notion. The conception

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